What is the difference between a fact and an opinion? Why is it important to know which is which when reading informational text

Facts are things you cannot change or have a different outcome, its hard to explain right but a probable easy way is to compare them as well as read their dictionary terms.

Dictionary term for " Fact "

"a thing that is known or proved to be true."

now " Opinion "

"a view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge."

You can see their differences, now lets try an example.

For fact, lets think of its meaning. The dictionary meaning of " fact " is a Fact.

Since " fact " doesnt mean " Something untrue ", that isnt a fact.

Opinions example is like

" What do you prefer, Apples or Bananas? "

If someone likes Apples better than Bananas, its an opinion since not everyone will prefer Apples to Bananas.

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Now for why is it important to know which is which when reading informational text.

Its important because of many factors, but first lets start with

" Safety "

You want to be able to know if for example " Is this water or is this not water? "

You wanna drink something but you cant tell which substance is it.

If the container with either water or something else says " This isnt NOT water " yet it was actually not water but you drank it. This is a Safety issue and can probably cause a health issues or something worse.

If you want to know more reasons, you can simply search it.

I hope you learned something. :)

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

is this multiple choice?